Li Ka-shing lived a very poor childhood, when he was 14 years old, in the midst of war, he had to go with his family, fled to Hong Kong, and defected to his uncle, who was still relatively wealthy at the time.

When Li Ka-shing was very poor in his childhood, when he was 14 years old, in the midst of war, he had to go with his family, fled to Hong Kong, and turned to his uncle, who was relatively wealthy at the time, and supported the family with his father. Unfortunately, not long after, his father died of a serious illness, and Li Ka-shing was the eldest son in the family, and since then he has had to replace his father as the pillar of the family. It was also at that time that he decided to drop out of school.

At first, he worked in a watch shop, then went to a plastic factory as a salesman, because of his good performance and hard work, it took only two years for Li Ka-shing to be promoted to general manager, when he was only 18 years old. Later, after having some savings in his pocket, Li Ka-shing began to start a business, asked relatives and friends to borrow some money, plus a few thousand yuan of his own, rented a factory, had previous experience in plastic factories, he started a business, but also did back to the old bank, founded the "Yangtze River Plastic Factory".

At that time, the domestic plastic flowers were very good to do, and there were many orders, but Li Ka-shing believed that such a business would not always have to be done, so he turned around and turned the direction to the foreign market, and sure enough, after two years, the plastic flowers could not be sold, but with the previous accumulation, when the crisis came, Li Ka-shing had successfully transferred the business to the foreign toy market. With an annual output of US$10 million, it is the highest in Hong Kong's plastic toy export industry.

In 1962, a serious bank credit crisis occurred in Hong Kong, investors and citizens in order to protect themselves, have sold real estate, real estate prices plummeted overnight, after a few years, the real estate was once silent, many real estate companies are broken, but Li Ka-shing is optimistic about the future of this market, at that time at a low price income of a large number of land and buildings, sure enough, within three years, the economy recovered, Li Ka-shing became a real estate predator.